I'm mildly irritated by the "upgrade" path that at least many dSLR users seem to have: from crop-factor camera to full frame sensor. Its almost given: it is assumed that if you're serious about photography, once you've "learned the ropes" with a crop camera, you'll want a full frame.
Yeah, I did that. Then gave up digital cameras for over a year altogether, and now am amazed by the quality of photos I get from a 4 year old Canon 450D @ 1600 ISO, after some noise cancellation in PP (obviously would've loved a digital RF, but hey, this Canon was 245 euros with 2 month warranty, try to beat that!). I still hate the finder though.
APS-C cameras are very capable in terms of image quality. Only negative thing is the fact that my Canon 35/2 LTM becomes a 56mm lens on one 🙁
My post, which used to have an image, seems to have drawn this fire.
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Here we have the best un-leica so far, crippled by lack of focusing aids.
In a camera with both a working EVF and OVF with mags, I don't understand why they are not projecting one to other like a patch or some varient thereof.
The nex EVF is actually extremely good for focusing with highspeed RF glass, and fast when you get used to it. I use the mag for high speed stuff, but the button makes it fast, and the EVF image is sharp and bright--with a diopter good to -4.25 vision.
But I doubt the 5n sensor is as good as the fuji with RF wides.
It was a very shallow dof shot
http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7029/6676376025_791c158173_b.jpg
and there was some question as to why I posted it in the first place.
It's with the Canon LTM 85/1.5, which is very very hard to focus wide open, and was to emphasize how the nex EVF, which is 10 times better than any previous, allows precise focus, fairly quickly. OK 3.8 times better. It's the second best way, at the moment, to focus a RF lens.
The xpro-1 has this fantastic optical finder, but unless I'm mistaken, it's useless in the situation posed by the photo.
The day when we have a 2kUSD small FF EVIL body good with leica glass is getting closer.
The guy I'm quoting at the top thought the pic was a salute to the shallow DOF provided by FF, and apparently spawned his irritation.
Fron the record:
I've never owned a DSLR.
I have an M6 and colordial IIIa, a GS645, and a nex 5n.
I would like my 28 cron to be a 28, not a 43, OK? To get 28 now, I have to reach for a slow, albeit excellent ZM18. I don't have 6k for an M9 right now.
The advantages of a functional full frame digital sensor to someone who owns a number of RF lenses is so obvious, so huge, I'm not even going to go on. Randomm, if you cannot see that, I am in mild disbelief.
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I love the Xpro-1, even though I will never own one--I don't think--because it's big and unpleasant to focus RF glass compared to current alternatives (I may be wrong). I hope it sells like crazy, because that will bring a serious FULL FRAME un-leica even closer
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